0001078782-07-000854 Sample Contracts

AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER BY AND BETWEEN GREEN PLAINS RENEWABLE ENERGY, INC., GREEN PLAINS GRAIN MERGER SUB, INC. and GREAT LAKES COOPERATIVE Dated as of August 15, 2007

Merger Agreement • August 15th, 2007 • Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. • Industrial organic chemicals • Iowa

• Contract Type
  Merger Agreement
• Filed
  August 15th, 2007
• Company
  Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc.
• Industry
  Industrial organic chemicals
• Jurisdiction
  Iowa

THIS AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER (this “Agreement”), is entered into as of August 15, 2007 by and among Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc., an Iowa corporation (“Parent”), Green Plains Grain Merger Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent (“Merger Sub”), and Great Lakes Cooperative, an Iowa cooperative association (the “Company”).